Kim Evans - Chair

Representing: State Government

Qualifications:

• Secretary, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment since 1999
• Twenty years experience in management of Tasmania’s primary industries and natural resources

Jamie Bayly-Stark

Representing: State Government
Qualifications:

• Assistant Director Policy, Department of Premier & Cabinet
• Long experience in natural resource management issues as a senior officer in the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment prior to moving to DPAC
• Member of Joint Steering Committee for the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) and the Natural Heritage Trust (NHT)

Maureen Bennett

Representing: NRM North Committee
Qualifications:

• Secretary and Public Officer of NRM North Association
• Director Farming Business and Cheese Manufacturing Business
• Director Landcare Australia Ltd
• Member of Tasmanian NHT State Assessment Panel, General Committee Tas Landcare Association, Steering Committee for Landcare Promotions Officer Project, Steering Committee for Mole Creek Karst System Project

Alan Davenport

Representing: Industry - Agriculture
Qualifications:

• Dairy Farmer
• Member, Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association Dairy Commodity Council
• Tasmanian representative, Australian Dairy Farmers Board
• Member, Dairy Tas. Water and Environment Group

Chris Davey

Representing: Industry - Forestry

Qualifications:

• Resource Manager, Gunns Forest Products
• Master of Environmental Management
• Experience in forest management

Neil Stump

Representing: Industry - Fishing/ Aquaculture
Qualifications:

• Chief Executive, Tasmanian Fishing Industry Council
• Commercial fisher for 24 years
• Over 15 years experience in industry representative organisations and committees
• Involvement in marine Protected Area planning

Tony Ferrier

Representing: NRM South Committee
Qualifications:

• Director Community Planning and Development, Kingborough Council
• Manager Environment and Development Services, Huon Valley Council and Manager Huon Healthy Rivers Project 1996-2005
• Qualifications in Natural Resources, Urban and Regional Planning and Surveying
• Member of Greening Australia (Tas) Board
• Broad knowledge of RMPS and relationship between NRM and statutory planning
• Extensive previous NSW State agency experience across integrated catchment and public land management

Allan Garcia

Representing: Local Government
Qualifications:

• Executive Director, Local Government Association of Tasmania; formerly Manager Policy, 1999-2003
• Extensive senior experience in variety of State Government agencies including Dept of State Development, Tasmania Development & Resources, Department of Premier & Cabinet, Departments of Construction and Transport
• Background in business and accounting

Helen Geard

Representing: Community
Qualifications:

• President Tasmanian Landcare Association
• Member of Greening Australia (Tas) Board
• Landcare facilitator with Southern Midlands Landcare Office, with extensive involvement in catchment management plans and weed management strategies
• Background in Environmental Studies, Administration & Information Technology

David Henderson

Representing: Cradle Coast NRM Committee
Qualifications:

• Lecturer/tutor & Sub-Dean in the Arts Faculty, University of Tasmania and Studying for Masters degree (Social Planning & Development)
• Organic farmer (raspberries)
• Member of Burnie Environment Centre, Tarkine National Coalition, TIAR Social Research Group (chair), landcare groups and fire brigade
• Experience in Queensland in COAG Water reform policy & RFA social assessment

Terry Long

Representing: Industry - Mining

Qualifications:

• Executive Director, Tasmanian Minerals Council
• Member of the Steering Committee for the development of the NRM Framework in Tasmania
• Chair, Major Employers Group – Energy Policy

Michael Lynch

Representing: Conservation
Qualifications:

• Chair, Tasmanian Heritage Council and Deputy Chair of Tasmania Together Progress Board
• Former Director, Tasmanian Conservation Trust and member of the NHT State Assessment Panel
• Extensive experience in broad suite of NRM issues, & involved in the development &/or operation of relevant legislation and policies, including the NRM Framework, Resource Management & Planning System, Threatened Species Strategy, Forest Practices Code, Nature Conservation Strategy, Wetlands Strategy, State Coastal Policy, State Policy on the Protection of Agricultural Land, and Marine Protected Areas Strategy

Catherine Nicholson

Representing: Community/planning
Qualifications:

• Established a Natural Resource and Planning Consultancy
• Member of the Resource Planning and Development Commission and the Resource Management and Planning Appeals Tribunal
• Masters in Regional and Urban Planning
• Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies

Theresa Sainty

Representing: Aboringinal Community
Qualifications:

• Aborignial Cultural Programs Coordinator with the Department of Education
• Previously involved in the development of the Statewide NRM Strategy for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community
• Experience in liaising with the Aboriginal Community

John Whittington

Representing: State Government
Qualifications:

• General Manager, Resource Management & Conservation, Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment
• Fifteen years experience in water resource and catchment management
• Member of the Joint Steering Committee for NAP and NHT and the national NRM Futures Working Group